Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Cherry Hill's Top Cop: Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner, Leonard Hamm
"The Hill" will always be in Leonard Hamm's heart--as with many of us first generation Cherry Hill kids. It may sound trite to many of you, but you just had to be there. The brand new Cherry Hill Homes community had the greenest grass, the bluest skies, and the freshest air, fragranced with honeysuckle--when you weren't smelling the trash from the dump. All of this of course through a child's eyes and nose. Leonard serves and protects Cherry Hill, to the extent that he can, today. Listen as he reminisces about this love of his life,
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